As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

Introducing the Physical Backed Token (PBT): an open source token standard tying a physical item to a digital token on the Ethereum blockchain.

Shopify's project-oriented way of working by Paul Dowman 🔴✨ pauldowman.com/posts/project-…

On the way to school, 10 yo asked "What if I'm a failure?" I told him that at least some of his projects would probably fail, and that if they didn't, it would mean he was being too conservative.

Marc Andreessen recently tweeted “In our new era of AI: Every child will have an A.I. tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful.” That era is here. Try it yourself 👉 synthesis.com/tutor 1/n

If you want teenagers to become successful founders, have a contest to write the best computer game instead of a contest to invent the most plausible-sounding fake startup idea. And pick the winner by measuring which game their peers play the most.

I’ve been a hospital chaplain now for eight years at hundreds of deathbeds. I want to tell you something I’ve witnessed. Most people, at the end, realize they’ve spent a lot of their life hiding. Sometimes by choice, or because they could not safely choose to be themselves. ➡️

Consumer cost per megabyte of data: 2022: $0.003 2021: $0.004 2020: $0.004 2019: $0.005 2018: $0.006 2017: $0.011 2016: $0.014 2015: $0.020 2014: $0.046 2013: $0.059 2012: $0.126 2007: $1.370 source: CTIA

Netflix was a slog. It took us about 18 months to find the repeatable scalable model we needed. And even after that, it took us 2-1/2 more years to get to 500,000 subscribers. I was so pumped I decided to print out the report where we finally crossed the line. Netflix